{"id":1540,"date":"2013-11-03T19:36:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T19:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2013-11-14T03:02:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T03:02:17","slug":"mask-of-the-red-death-halloween-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/03\/mask-of-the-red-death-halloween-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"mask of the red death – halloween 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A much simpler costume than I usually go for – but I needed a break. \u00a0I had a lot of fun startling people on campus – with two exceptions.<\/p>\n

A woman in the Alumni office said she didn’t celebrate Halloween because it was Satan’s Birthday – or perhaps just Satan’s Day. \u00a0She wished me a “blessed day”, though.<\/p>\n

And she continued to hang around while I hung out with the folks that did enjoy the day – even going so far as to offer to take a picture \u00a0But, really, Satan’s Day? \u00a0People actually believe that?<\/p>\n

I also tried to crash a meeting with the Board of Trustees. \u00a0I was actually invited, but I had the day off. \u00a0It might have been amusing, but would also have been disruptive. \u00a0I got turned away and it was just as well.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, the day was good. \u00a0I covered way more ground than in previous years and was exhausted by the time I was done.<\/p>\n

Oh, and nobody could figure out who I was. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0At all. \u00a0When I told them I was from an EAP story, one woman said I should have a raven on my shoulder. \u00a0Except I thought she said “raisin”. \u00a0Which made no sense, but was pretty funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link A much simpler costume than I usually go for – but I needed a break. \u00a0I had a lot of fun startling people on campus – with two exceptions. A woman in the Alumni office said she didn’t celebrate Halloween because it was Satan’s Birthday – or perhaps just Satan’s Day. \u00a0She wished me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}